Top "Multitasking" questions

Multitasking is the apparent simultaneous execution of two or more tasks by a computer.

App inside an app

Is it possible to run an application from inside another application? What I want to do is write an app …

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Start Async Task without using Await in called method

Window store app that has a long running method that I need to call when the application starts up, but …

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Task.ContinueWith method requires task argument?

I have a class with two methods, Load() and Process(). I want to be able to run these individually as …

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Does using Tasks (TPL) library make an application multithreaded?

Recently when being interviewed, I got this question. Q: Have you written multithreaded applications? A: Yes Q: Care to explain …

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Having application running above other app

I want to make an activity that can be opened above ANY app. Normally, even when the activity is set …

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multiple parallel async calls with await

As far as I know, when runtime comes across the statement below it wraps the rest of the function as …

asynchronous multitasking async-await c#-5.0
POSIX C Threads. pthread_cond_t example. Doesn't work as expected

I wrote a wrote a program and it doesn't work as I expect it to. I have two threads: thread …

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Sprite Kit & playing sound leads to app termination

using ARC Just a problem I've run into- I have an SKScene in which I play a sound fx using …

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Detecting when app is becoming active from lockscreen vs other on iOS7

My app has different behavior when becoming active from the lockscreen (locked while active), or becoming active from anything else. …

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Android Simulator: Easy way to simulate a process restart due to low memory?

As I just learned, Android reserves the right to kill a background application's process at any moment in order to …

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